Word 2003 Slow Opening Large File

I have a 65mb Word document (just over 1000 pages). On my Dell Laptop (2.4gz, 768mb RAM) it repaginates most of the time in about 4 minutes. On two HP Desktop systems (2.7ghz, 1gb ram) the file takes 20-30 minutes to repaginates. What options are available for trying to open this document faster?

There are no images in it, it is all pages and pages of survey data in tables. Unfortunately, I cant share the data as it is highly confidential data from a large company. I did seem to get it to repaginate MUCH faster now. Once the file is opened it will say like 1/5 pages then repaginate as you scroll through it. To make it go MUCH faster, when the document opens, hit Ctrl-End, the pagination now takes about 2 minutes which is quite livable. Once that completes the document is cached and Word performans nicely.

Not gonna happen, 10 minutes and Word is dead trying to save as RTF. I thought for a second about saving it as HTML but I have seen Explorer crash on a lot less than 1000 pages.

As for the size, this is an intense document, 1,000 pages of landscape tables all in tiny font sizes. There are 2.5 million characters. Its the table data that is pushing it off the scale, not "words".

Thanks for the tips, but the Ctrl-End to force pagination seems to be making everyone happy right now. On my 3.2ghz desktop, it finishes in under a minute.

Not if I wanted to keep this client. Wish I could, but the company that creates the file (a large in-car communications company that is carried by a major car company) auto-creates this file for my client (a large company that analyzes all the data from their client) and both companies would have my hide if I let anyone see the data.

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One thing to check:
Go under Tools, Templates and Addins - what template is attached (if anything other than normal.dot)?
Is the template available on the desktops?
Do you have autotext entries in the document that may be images? If so, delete them. You can print out autotext entries, File, Print, Print What, Autotext.

Also:
Start with a blank document
Insert, File, browse to problem document
Save and see what file size is

or

Copy and paste everything but the last paragraph marker in the document
Save and see what file size is

I have tried all of the suggestions and I really appreciate the effort. However, there are no images, autotext, or anything abnormal. It is simple one massive table structure after another. It is all done in 6 and 8 pt font sizes so the amount of text is double what you would normally get per page, add in the table definitions and headers and it just keeps adding up to a massive file regardless of what we have tried.

Thanks, Kerry.
Please advise the client that the point isn't moot if we could perhaps create a macro or something that will automatically *fix* the file each week. You could also advise them that I have had clients such as MSDW, JPMorgan, and GS, to name just a few. Also, if you do a search on my username, you'll notice I have a bit of a reputation to uphold and wouldn't jeopardize it for a bit of data. :) I have over 27,000 tech support posts on the web.
Anyway, I do understand YOUR position, and am only sorry. This must frustrate heck out of you.

It sure does, but since their big complaint was taking 20 minutes to load the file and telling them to hit Ctrl-End and having it only take 2 minutes, they are happy for the time being. My personal guess is that this is going to require the work to get it solved at some point as this data set is growing each week and its only a matter of time before my simple work-around stops working.

There is a feature provided by MS Word that lets you create an Table of Contents for your Word document automatically.
To use this feature for other documents there are two steps involved,
1. Prepare your document for a table of contents (he…